With the announcement that the Seattle Times prepares to lay off 160 people, comes further evidence that the changes in traditional approaches to media are under siege.
After Murdoch purchased the Wall Street Journal, with the Chicago Tribune owning the Los Angeles Times, and myriad other examples over recent years, journalism as we once new it faces huge challenges that emanate from the bottom-line but affect the quality of news coverage - breadth, depth, as well as other essential and non-essential qualities to a feely informed society.
This editorial in yesterday's Times' opinion section ...
Asking "If we're so irrelevant, why are you reading?", Ryan Blethen affirms the position that papers like his hold in vibrant communities.
And, this podcast put up by the Times' editorial staff to discuss the issues.
All part of their series, The Democracy Papers.
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